“The left has done a good job radicalizing juggalos, weebs, furries, but I will not rest until ‘hXc’ stands for hang+Xterminate capitalists.”

A socialist student group at Iowa State University has repeatedly made threatening comments about conservatives on social media, but the school says the comments are protected speech.

In one recent tweet, the school’s Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) chapter called for the hanging and extermination of all “capitalists.”

“The left has done a good job radicalizing juggalos, weebs, furries, but I will not rest until ‘hXc’ stands for hang+Xterminate capitalists,” the group wrote in an October 4 tweet that has since been deleted.

After students brought the tweet to attention of the university, it replied via twitter by stating “this falls under free speech” and then offering available “resources” to student if they “feel threatened or harassed.”

Nor is this the first time that YDSA has posted threatening tweets, such as a September 30 tweet in which the club endorsed “shooting” President Trump.

“COMRADES: stay away from needle drugs! The only dope worth shooting is in the oval office rn [right now],” the group tweeted, though it subsequently deleted that post, as well.

These fools should be expelled if students and trespassed from
school grounds. The local authorities should look into prosecution
and their faces and names put in the press so they can be
recognized. Oh did I say the press, fat chance, maybe on
not-wanted posters around town, threatening violence should
help parents want to remove their own from any school that
covers for subversive and potential murdering thugs………William

I thought that incitement to Violence was a crime in the US. If it is, these students should be prosecuted. Regardless, speech that incites violence should not be considered “free speech”. There ARE some boundaries, after all.